On-Demand Solutions for Discrete Manufacturing
Today, manufacturers with complex, technology-dependent products face intense market demands for documentation that is timely, relevant, and available in a variety of formats. Global competition is continuously driving companies to deliver more products at a faster rate, without compromising product quality. These forces put tremendous pressure on documentation teams, who are delivering a key component of the end-user experience – the documentation that supports the product.
Astoria On-Demand provides an unfair advantage to manufacturers by addressing inefficiencies in the creation and management of technical document publishing while improving information quality. Using Astoria On-Demand's dynamic product documentation solution, organizations benefit from a proven, powerful solution for dynamic publishing that solves the most challenging documentation requirements.
Leading manufacturers including Texas Instruments, Micron, and Nokia use Astoria to speed time to publish, reduce documentation costs, as well as improve content accuracy and consistency. One Astoria manufacturing customer has realized 90% reduction in annual translation costs for its global product documentation.
Astoria On-Demand delivers on the vision of DITA-based, dynamic publishing: author-once, reuse many, and consume in any way needed. We achieve this while eliminating installation and maintenance costs, and delivering proven enterprise-class software for manufacturer's most valuable, business-critical content – its product documentation.
KEY COMPONENTS OF ASTORIA ON-DEMAND SOLUTIONS FOR DISCRETE MANUFACTURING:
Astoria On-Demand :
the industry's most comprehensive on-demand solution for building, managing, and assembling DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) content. Astoria On-Demand combines a very fast XML content engine, automated workflow and review and collaboration features, in a single, Internet-accessible, hosted solution.
Astoria Content Integrator:
state of the art and patent-pending differencing engine automates the time consuming and resource intensive process of manually accepting and integrating content from OEMs, regulatory agencies and suppliers
Astoria Filtered Publisher:
enables organizations to generate operations manuals dynamically and customize them to the specific requirements of each unique customer. Astoria's content filtering software helps you generate custom documents as per your specific requirements.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF ASTORIA ON-DEMAND MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS INCLUDE:
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| Enhanced Quality |
Fast searches and reliable cross references ensure content re-use and integrity |
Improve content integrity and accuracy |
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| Increased Productivity |
Includes all traditional change page capabilities with added Astoria element level controls to support a wide variety of printed and digital output requirements |
Lower printing and distribution costs by producing change packets with each revision cycle |
| Incorporates updated and third-party content, and automatically identifies content, structure and attribute changes |
Minimizes the number of 'changed pages' for publications, and automatically generates table of contents, indexes, list of affected pages |
| Integrates and identifies updates/revisions to existing documents issued from third-party partners/suppliers using Astoria Content Integrator |
Maintain the most current content automatically, even from suppliers and partners |
| Integrates workflow, e-mail, and assembly management of change page process |
Frequent revision cycles can be managed simultaneously, regardless of complexity |
| Provides the ability to create change packages for a specific, customized product configuration (Astoria Filtered Publisher) |
Flight and maintenance manuals customized by tail number provide ease-of-use |
| Single source publishing from the Astoria repository makes all content available for re-use and repurposing on an automated basis |
Maximize content re-use, while minimizing effort to create and update content |
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| Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Higher ROI |
Easy to install, use, and maintain |
Eliminates the need for DBAs or technical IT specialists, saving valuable engineering time |
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